Reading Player X’s comments was surprisingly refreshing, as it didn’t seem to have an anti-gun tilt like you usually expect from a mainstream media source. He brought up the murders of Darrent Williams and Sean Taylor in 2007, and how it made a lot of people, particularly those in professional sports, realize the potential benefits of owning a gun. Williams was killed while out in the town in Houston, while Taylor was killed in his own home.

He then mentions Plaxico Burress, who shot himself in the leg in a night club, which Player X correctly described as being the wrong and careless way to own a firearm.

The great news is that he suggests that players now take guns much more seriously since that occurred (which everyone should do from the get-go) and are taking gun-safety courses and the like. The basic idea was that gun-owners should be knowledgeable and respectful of guns.

Also, on that note, all gun-owners should know the four basic gun safety rules: